Light wave propagation and diffraction inhibition in three-dimensional photonic quasicrystal lattices

Abstract

We have investigated the linear propagation of light wave in three-dimensional photonic quasicrystal lattices by numerical simulation. The diffraction characteristics of the light waves in the longitudinal non-modulated, in-phase modulated and out-of-phase modulated quasicrystal lattices have been compared and discussed. We have demonstrated the diffraction inhibition of light wave in three-dimensional photonic quasicrystals. Linear transverse light localization has been realized in the longitudinal out-of-phase modulated three-dimensional quasicrystal lattices by adjusting the structural parameters appropriately. Furthermore, the results also show that the longitudinal out-of-phase modulated photonic quasicrystals are easier to produce diffraction inhibition than the longitudinal out-of-phase modulated periodic lattices under low transverse refractive index contrast. Distortionless dot image transmission has numerically demonstrated in out-of-phase modulated photonic quasicrystals array. It provides a new way for distortion-free image transmission, which has promising applications in optical information transmission and all-optical signal processing.

Keywords

• Photonic quasicrystal lattices
• Three-dimensional
• Diffraction inhibition
• Light localization